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n. (person) | 1. emperor | the male ruler of an empire. |
| ~ empress | a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor. |
| ~ holy roman emperor | sovereign of the Holy Roman Empire. |
| ~ kaiser | the title of the Holy Roman Emperors or the emperors of Austria or of Germany until 1918. |
| ~ mikado, tenno | the emperor of Japan; when regarded as a religious leader the emperor is called tenno. |
| ~ emperor of rome, roman emperor | sovereign of the Roman Empire. |
| ~ romanoff, romanov | a member of the imperial family that ruled Russia. |
| ~ crowned head, monarch, sovereign | a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right. |
| ~ francis joseph, francis joseph i, franz josef i, franz joseph | emperor of Austria and king of Hungary; was defeated by Napoleon III at the battle of Magenta (1830-1916). |
| ~ genghis khan, jenghiz khan, jinghis khan, temujin | Mongolian emperor whose empire stretched from the Black Sea to the Pacific Ocean (1162-1227). |
| ~ haile selassie, ras tafari, ras tafari makonnen | emperor of Ethiopia; worshipped by Rastafarians (1892-1975). |
| ~ hirohito, michinomiya hirohito | emperor of Japan who renounced his divinity and became a constitutional monarch after Japan surrendered at the end of World War II (1901-1989). |
| ~ justinian, justinian i, justinian the great | Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians; codified Roman law in 529; his general Belisarius regained North Africa and Spain (483-565). |
| ~ kubla khan, kublai kaan, kublai khan | Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan who completed his grandfather's conquest of China; he establish the Yuan dynasty and built a great capital on the site of modern Beijing where he received Marco Polo (1216-1294). |
| ~ meiji tenno, mutsuhito | emperor of Japan who encouraged the modernization of Japan (1852-1912). |
| ~ montezuma ii | the last Aztec emperor in Mexico who was overthrown and killed by Hernando Cortes (1466-1520). |
| ~ bonaparte, little corporal, napoleon, napoleon bonaparte, napoleon i | French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821). |
| ~ charles louis napoleon bonaparte, emperor napoleon iii, napoleon iii | nephew of Napoleon I and emperor of the French from 1852 to 1871 (1808-1873). |
| ~ ch'in shih huang ti, qin shi huang ti | the first Qin emperor who unified China, built much of the Great Wall, standardized weights and measures, and created a common currency and legal system (died 210 BC). |
| ~ shah jahan | Mogul emperor of India during whose reign the finest monuments of Mogul architecture were built (including the Taj Mahal at Agra) (1592-1666). |
n. (food) | 2. emperor | red table grape of California. |
| ~ vinifera grape | grape from a cultivated variety of the common grape vine of Europe. |
n. (animal) | 3. emperor, emperor moth, saturnia pavonia | large moth of temperate forests of Eurasia having heavily scaled transparent wings. |
| ~ saturniid, saturniid moth | large brightly colored and usually tropical moth; larvae spin silken cocoons. |
| ~ genus saturnia, saturnia | type genus of the Saturniidae: emperor moth. |
n. (animal) | 4. emperor, emperor butterfly | large richly colored butterfly. |
| ~ brush-footed butterfly, four-footed butterfly, nymphalid, nymphalid butterfly | medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and much-reduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast. |
| ~ apatura, genus apatura | large Old World butterflies. |
| ~ apatura iris, purple emperor | large European butterfly the male of which has wings shaded with purple. |
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